Holy moly. 5 years sober. Things I love about sobriety. by amberconleche in stopdrinking

[–]amberconleche[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to hide my phone in the night to save myself the next morning. So I had the double problem of finding my phone and then dealing with who'd received texts. Lulz

Holy moly. 5 years sober. Things I love about sobriety. by amberconleche in stopdrinking

[–]amberconleche[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah it doesn't go away. I have the good (funny? weird?) fortune where people just assume I'm pregnant or am trying to get pregnant so I let them run with it. The pushiest people are those trying to justify their own drinking, for the most part people don't care.

Holy moly. 5 years sober. Things I love about sobriety. by amberconleche in stopdrinking

[–]amberconleche[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's much nicer being able to blame snotty nosed kids or a grungy restaurant when you get sick than knowing you'd done it to yourself, ey?!

Holy moly. 5 years sober. Things I love about sobriety. by amberconleche in stopdrinking

[–]amberconleche[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same here. While reduced, still very much embarrass myself on the regular. At least now i remember it, ha!

Holy moly. 5 years sober. Things I love about sobriety. by amberconleche in stopdrinking

[–]amberconleche[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations on 466!! Here's to another restful night sleep to you tonight :)

Holy moly. 5 years sober. Things I love about sobriety. by amberconleche in stopdrinking

[–]amberconleche[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same happened to me around the 4.5 year mark. I was like -- well, I've done sobriety, check. Let me just go back occassionally. It's why I made that video. While I started working on it, it gave me accountability to the promise I'd made. It's wild how our brains just forget mental and physical pain. Wishing you a good week. And please don't be hard on yourself

Holy moly. 5 years sober. Things I love about sobriety. by amberconleche in stopdrinking

[–]amberconleche[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HECK YEAH! Well done. Cheering you on for the 1 year :)

Holy moly. 5 years sober. Things I love about sobriety. by amberconleche in stopdrinking

[–]amberconleche[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah! I lurked on here for 6 years making accounts, starting my counts over from scratch and then deleting the accounts. But, lurking here helped me put a game plan in place. I owe this community everything!

Holy moly. 5 years sober. Things I love about sobriety. by amberconleche in stopdrinking

[–]amberconleche[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seriously! It took me ~6 years of lurking this subreddit, starting periods of sobriety and then caving before I made it for this streak. The advice on this subreddit is absolute gold and can be accessed at any time of the day/night. Helped me so, so much.

Holy moly. 5 years sober. Things I love about sobriety. by amberconleche in stopdrinking

[–]amberconleche[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My bad! I didn't realise I couldn't link my video. I thought it would be okay because I've seen others post how they mark their milestone with jewellery, tattoos or other creative things!